Ebola survivor tells how touch on arm nearly killed him

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Sulaiman Kanneh Saidu touched a woman he was treating and became infectedSandra Smiley

Published at 12:01AM, August 11 2014

Health worker Sulaiman Kanneh Saidu was infected with ebola when he left half an inch of his skin exposed when treating a woman patient

Health worker Sulaiman Kanneh Saidu had seen enough cases of ebola to know
when he had caught it. He helped to care for some of the first people in
Sierra Leone to succumb to the deadly virus, and saw dozens of people die
from it.

Then, while he was working, he left half an inch of his skin exposed, on his
wrist between his gloves and his shirt-sleeve, touched a woman he was
treating and became infected.